When
Theresa May signed her Faustian pact with the DUP leader Arlene
Foster I wonder if she even considered that the whole Brexit
negotiations will be controlled by DUP.
The prime minister believed that she had pulled out of a deal with Brussels that would have kick-started trade
talks after meeting fierce resistance from the DUP.
However that party said it would not accept a deal which saw Northern Ireland treated differently from the rest of the UK.
It is important to note that Northern Ireland voted to remain in the EU/
However that party said it would not accept a deal which saw Northern Ireland treated differently from the rest of the UK.
It is important to note that Northern Ireland voted to remain in the EU/
Results by constituent countries
| Country | Electorate | Voter turnout, of eligible |
Votes | Proportion of votes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Remain | Leave | Remain | Leave | ||||
| England (including Gibraltar) |
39,005,781 | 73.0% | 13,266,996 | 15,188,406 | 46.62% | 53.38% | |
| Northern Ireland | 1,260,955 | 62.7% | 440,707 | 349,442 | 55.78% | 44.22% | |
| Scotland | 3,987,112 | 67.2% | 1,661,191 | 1,018,322 | 62.00% | 38.00% | |
| Wales | 2,270,272 | 71.7% | 772,347 | 854,572 | 47.47% | 52.53% | |
To what extent the boarder question played in the Remain vote is up for question but the result meant that every constituency on the Irish boarder voted Remain.
But every Constituency on the Irish Boarder voted ;eave/
Indeed the DUP were i a minority of political parties there campaigming fpr a leave vote with the Ulster Unionists campaigning to Remain
Indeed when it comes to seats in the Northern Ireland Assembly then they are in a minority even if as the BBC claims "they are the Largest" party they have no electoral mandate to speak for Norhern Ireland
Number of seats by party
- DUP (Leave) 28 28.08%
- SF (Remain) 27 27.93%
- SDLP(Remain) 12 11.95%
- UUP (Remain) 10 12.81%
- AP (Remain) 8 9.06%
- Ind/O 5 10.17%
- 90 of 90 Seats filled
- 18 of 18 1st preference complete
- 18 of 18 Constituencies complete
- 64.66% Turnout
Could this be the real reason for the failure of the Northern Ireland Assembly to meet.
Can the DUP be working on then premiss that they have more power in Westminster than in the Northern Ireland Assembly.
I have no problem with a minority party exploiting a hung parliament and promoting their agend by deals such as the DUP ave done with the Tories.
But the DUP do not have a majority in Northern Ireland and by the very nature of Northern Ireland politics only speak for at best half the population.
We in Wales voted to leave so we have placed ourselves at the mercy of Westminster.
But Scotland voted to remain ans the SNP have a mandate in Scotland and yet Scotland is ignored and the wishes of the DUP who have no Mandate when it comes to Leave or in the Northern Assembly votes can decide whether there is a hard boarder with the Republic.
And yet if the SNP where backing a Labour government in Westminster the London media would be in meltdown.
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DUP have said that they cannot support a deal where Northern Ireland have different conditions from the rest of the UK. The solution must surely be for all the Remain voting areas - Scotland, Gibralter and Northern Ireland - to get the same conditions, different from the Leave voting countries. Then everyone should be satisfied.
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